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Actor and director Gustaf Gruendgens as Mephisto in a production of Faust at the Staatstheater Berlin, 11 October 1941.

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Russian dancer Anna Pavlova, circa 1920.

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A Roman mosaic of a scene in a theatre, found in the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii and now in the Museo Nazionale Archeologico in Naples.

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Commedia dell'Arte figure from the time of Francis I of France, in a wood engraving circa 1850.

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"Moulin Rouge, La Goulue", 1891, a poster for the Moulin Rouge featuring the dancers Luise Weber, "La Goulue" and Etienne Renaudin, "Valentin le Desosse" by Toulouse-Lautrec.

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